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(...) Sometimes the more fun ones are the boxy ones.. except for the blisters. Nice job! :) -Anne -- There may be 50 ways to leave your (\`--/') _ _______ .-r-. leave your lover, but there are >.~.\ `` ` `,`,`. ,'_'~`. only 4 ways out of this (...) (18 years ago, 15-Feb-07, to lugnet.build.sculpture)
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They're both very impressive! Makes me feel left out ; ) but I would miss the real tree too much... God Bless, Nathan (URL) (18 years ago, 15-Feb-07, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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(...) Very cool Pete. I too had a LEGO tree this past Christmas. Mine stood just over 9'. Here is my father in-law standing next to it: (URL) (18 years ago, 15-Feb-07, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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(...) Thanks, Will! The sculpture has two forms of internal support.... a metal armature, and LEGO-beams. Metal for rigidity, LEGO for accuracy. The metal armature is mostly for keeping the model upright, and wasn't welded as precisely as LEGO (...) (18 years ago, 13-Feb-07, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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(...) Sean, you can count my jaw with the others, down there on the floor. Truly a massive undertaking, and very well executed. Bravo! I have had my share of gluing sculpture, and I had slight misaligmnent after only only 6 inches of gluing. Yours (...) (18 years ago, 13-Feb-07, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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Hi again, everybody: I'm happy to announce I've just completed my largest sculpture ever. It's, unfortunately, a very plain (boxy) shape, but it was a fun (and blistering) challenge to build nonetheless. (URL) JPMorgan Chase asked me to build this (...) (18 years ago, 12-Feb-07, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX) !
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Hello everyone! Fresh from her debut at a 1000 Stiene event in Frechen, Germany. Here is the 5th Podagon: CHOCODELIA (2 URLs) One day as Chocodelia the Podagon was exploring, she happened upon a Chocolate Factory. “What a perfect spot to rest!” So (...) (18 years ago, 15-Jan-07, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.castle, lugnet.events.1000steine-land, lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX) !
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(...) It seems that by default, Visual C++ expects some libraries to exist on the user's computer. I've compiled a static build instead, so hopefully it should work for everyone now. The fixed Windows binary is up on the site. Let me know if you (...) (18 years ago, 14-Jan-07, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.cad)
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(...) I'm not a math or a CS person really, so some of my notation could very well be wrong. What I meant is that k should be 1, 2, or 3, whichever gives you the biggest answer. (...) Yes. (...) Thanks! --Bram (18 years ago, 18-Dec-06, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.cad)
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(...) I always thought $k\in\{1,2,3\}$ was pretty much equivalent in this situation to $k=1,2,3$. By your definition you are assigning k to be equal to the set as opposed to a value. (...) I think you're right about this one. (...) Tim (18 years ago, 18-Dec-06, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.cad)
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(...) Hmm. Most of that went over my head. Still, there were a few things that I think confused me due to more than my incipient senility: In formula 3, shouldn't that be "Let k\in \{1,2,3\} such that . . ." rather than "Let k=\{1,2,3\} such that . (...) (18 years ago, 18-Dec-06, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.cad)
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Many of you all know about my passion for art and one of my favourite types of builds are of the more artistic endeavours. For the last number of years I have been book-marking and saving Lego pics to my hard drive that are of that nature. When I (...) (18 years ago, 17-Dec-06, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build.mosaic, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.fun.community, FTX) !!
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(...) This is already an option! Use the command line "-b 1" to get the bottom layer of plates studs up instead of studs down. Increase 1 to whatever number of layers you want studs up (it'll do 5 layers at a time, so the next meaningful layer (...) (18 years ago, 15-Dec-06, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.cad)
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(...) Another handy option might be one to flip bricks pointing down so that they point up. So the sculpture would be completely studs out execept for the bottom, which would always be studs up instead of studs down like it is now. Not sure how this (...) (18 years ago, 15-Dec-06, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.cad)
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(...) Amazing work Bram! Loved the paper. Just a quick note: The 3D converter that you link to can take as import Renderman files (RIB) and output PLY files. RIB is one of the supported file formats to E-frontier's Poser software. This allows for (...) (18 years ago, 15-Dec-06, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Yep, that should work. You might get some funky pieces around the edges of the mesh, but most of it should be good. If you want a studs up landscape, use "-q -n" in your commandline. (...) I look forward to some cool results! --Bram (18 years ago, 15-Dec-06, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Hey James, right now there are no inner workings on any of the rendered models. It's up to you to figure out how to build the shape my program spits out. --Bram (18 years ago, 15-Dec-06, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) I used someone else's library to read in the PLY files, so I'm not sure what it prefers. STL is a simpler format, so I wrote that parser myself...and haven't had any problems with it. (...) Try saving as PLY binary from 3D Object Converter. As (...) (18 years ago, 15-Dec-06, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.cad)
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Very cool. So it looks like this was used for a class project (based on the header of the paper). If so, I hope you got an A. The paper itself looks exactly like papers I've looked at in the past that were presented at SIGGraph. It seems to not like (...) (18 years ago, 15-Dec-06, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Those sculptures look great with studs-all-the-way - it looks like you have released a whole new degree of freedom in sculpting! (18 years ago, 15-Dec-06, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.cad)
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(...) Wow. It amazes me what you can come up with :-) I love LEGO. It allows people to do such cool things like this. Spotlighted. -Anne (18 years ago, 15-Dec-06, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Wow! I have been working on some sculptures, scenery’s and a huge globe using these studs out building technique lately. And this would be a great addition. I presume I could also use this in making a landscape with the correct 3D triangle (...) (18 years ago, 15-Dec-06, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.cad, FTX)
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Awesome work, Bram. Any chance of getting an MPD or some screenshots of the innards of the cow? James Wilson (18 years ago, 15-Dec-06, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) I sure did!!! Outstanding... Three things I found: - LSculpt seem to prefer "Unix" style PLY (with only CR at the end of text file instead of CR/LF Windows style). I had to convert Stanford bunny (bun_zipper.ply) to be able to use it. - After (...) (18 years ago, 15-Dec-06, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.cad)
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Wow... if I were still building witth LEGO bricks with any regularity, this style is all I'd be doing. Beautiful stuff. Eric (...) (18 years ago, 15-Dec-06, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.cad, FTX)
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Haven't had time to really read into this (will though!) but wanted to post a quick congrats based only on first impressions. They look great! Well done! God Bless, Nathan (URL) (18 years ago, 15-Dec-06, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Building stuff is fun. (...) Thanks! Shoot me an email if you're interested in the code. --Bram (18 years ago, 15-Dec-06, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.cad)
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(...) And apparently my ability to ask questions far supersedes my ability to follow links. I see you've written a handy paper to explain the method. Thanks. Tim (18 years ago, 15-Dec-06, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Hi Bram, Some excellent algorithmic design there. Are you sure you shouldn't be doing combinatorics rather than engineering? A few questions about it: 1) Is the whole thing algorithmic or do you have to specify where your snot-centers (I see (...) (18 years ago, 15-Dec-06, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(URL) Click the pic for more info Here's some more examples of my software at work, rendered in POV-Ray: (URL) Here's how studs-out building compares to studs-up: (URL) Enjoy! --Bram (18 years ago, 15-Dec-06, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.cad, FTX) !!
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May this maxifig live long and prosper! Awesome! (18 years ago, 7-Dec-06, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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Well I don't know the reference/origin of the figure (explaining the 'future' to a castle builder is not easy ; ) but must admit I like the look of this guy a lot! Well done! God Bless, Nathan Visit my brickshelf gallery: (URL) (pic=link) (18 years ago, 6-Dec-06, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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(...) That would be even cooler imho. Then you could have ships, bases and legions of borg too. (18 years ago, 6-Dec-06, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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(...) When I first clicked on this post, I thought that I would read something about a minifig scale Picard/Borg. Thank you for the pleasant surprise! David (18 years ago, 6-Dec-06, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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(...) Way cool. As a long time Star Trek fan, I approve. Though I live in Hawaii (at least until the end of January) and wish I could have seen this MOC first hand, my duties with the Navy have kept me extremely busy with virtually no free time. (...) (18 years ago, 6-Dec-06, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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Presenting (URL) Legcutus of Borg!> (URL) After finding the instructions for set 3723 on Peeron, I decided to build a minifig sculpture for myself. But when I was told the theme for this year's Hawaii FLL robotics tournament (which I was displaying (...) (18 years ago, 5-Dec-06, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX) !!
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Another centerpiece, this time a Thanksgiving turkey: (2 URLs) (after moderation) I built it in three hours the night before Thanksgiving, so it's a bit scrawny and I had to cut some corners. For example, I used an old hinge piece to attach the (...) (18 years ago, 30-Nov-06, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, FTX)
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| | Large-scale LEGO furniture sculptures
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Hi again everyone! Last month I was approached by a Danish furniture company that is coming to the US for the first time ever. They asked me to build some large sculptural models of their furniture pieces, which were shipped over to a trade show and (...) (18 years ago, 17-Nov-06, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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Hi everyone! On October 21 and 22, Three LEGO Master Builders came to New York to hold a big building event at FAO Schwarz. (2 URLs) Since they were short-handed, the Master Builders asked if I could help out. Most of the weekend was about getting (...) (18 years ago, 17-Nov-06, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.events, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.licensed.batman, FTX)
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| | Art trophy sculptures for NWBrickCon 2006
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(URL) As the (URL) Art Coordinator> for (URL) Northwest BrickCon 2006> ((URL) NWBrickCon2006> (URL) NWBC2006>) one of my responsibilities was to produce the (URL) for the art category. One (URL) was given out for "Best 2D Art". One (URL) was given (...) (18 years ago, 15-Nov-06, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.events.nwbrickcon, lugnet.loc.us.wa.sea, FTX)
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